We are excited to announce the #PAA2026 Call for Papers is now available! The submission site opens on Monday, Aug. 18 and the deadline is Sunday, Oct. 5. Meet me in St. Louis! May 6-9, 2026: www.populationassociation.org/paa2026/call...
Jasmin Passet-Wittig
@passetwittig.bsky.social
Sociologist, social demographer interested in family, fertility, assisted reproduction, works at BiB in Germany , views are my own
Assisted reproductive technologies - such as in-vitro fertilisation - are on the rise. How do they affect fertility rates? Read our latest #PopDigest by @jenchanfreau.bsky.social , Alice Goisis & Øystein Kravdal 🔗 tinyurl.com/2wkefabd
Holy shit, I hadn't even thought of this! asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec... You hide AI prompts in your paper that tell AI reviewers to say positive stuff (presumably both for public reviews and private analysis) I wonder if Amazon sellers are already doing this?
'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers
Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review
asia.nikkei.com
Honored to be part of the team of writers behind the @unfpa.org State of the World Population 2025 report. The real fertility crisis: The most consequential reproductive decision a person can make –when, whether and with whom to have a child– is being undermined by a set of barriers and obstacles
UNFPA@unfpa.org · last yr.💶 Cost of parenthood 📉 Job insecurity 🏠 Housing Why would people choose to have children if they can't afford them? It's time we address #TheRealFertilityCrisis. Let @unfpa.org—the #UnitedNations sexual and reproductive health agency—explain how: unf.pa/rfc
Repost @FReDA: Wer trägt die Last der #Verhütung? Studie von @kfirl.bsky.social, @nrmllr.bsky.social & T. Nutz mit #FReDA-Daten: ➡️ Frauen leisten die meiste Verhütungsarbeit – emotional, körperlich & organisatorisch. 📊 Das gilt auch bei höherem Einkommen oder Bildung. Link: osf.io/preprints/so...
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📢 New paper alert. Get a free copy of the paper of Detlev Lück and me on the drivers of contraceptive non-use in Germany. Get in touch if you want to discuss more www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JQKER...
Drivers of contraceptive non-use among women and men who are not trying to get pregnant
This study examines an inconsistency between an attitude and a behaviour: non-use of contraception among people who are not trying to get pregnant. More than one in four people in that situation re...
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I've published a blog post article that explores the emotional and behavioral effects of parental separation on children, and reflects on how positive connections with parents can act as a buffer to protect children during this time 🌱 Check out the post (and related research article)
The Effects of Parental Separation | Child & Family Blog
Discover the effects of parental separation on children in this recent study, with insights on separation.
childandfamilyblog.com
Here are a few lists of sociologists in no particular order. Slant towards German and quantitative sociologists. #socsky go.bsky.app/Kr3Rj1D go.bsky.app/EAwwzdk go.bsky.app/EAwwzdk go.bsky.app/Ugw67cP go.bsky.app/9WAVGNd go.bsky.app/4aZkRmJ go.bsky.app/81Hby5t
Justizminister Buschmann will #Eizellspende noch in dieser Legislaturperiode legalisieren. www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/fami...
Familie: Buschmann hält Legalisierung der Eizellenspende für möglich
Vor der nächsten Bundestagswahl bemühen sich Ampel-Politiker, noch mindestens ein Vorhaben zur sogenannten reproduktiven Selbstbestimmung auf den Weg zu bringen. Welches das sein wird, ist noch offen.
tagesspiegel.de
A new data infrastructure for family research and demographic analysis: the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA) academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...
A new data infrastructure for family research and demographic analysis: the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA)
Abstract. This data brief introduces the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA; https://www.freda-panel.de/), a longitudinal, multi-actor database fo
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"a grant proposal’s percentage of promotional language is associated with up to a doubling of the grant’s probability of being funded"
Promotional language and the adoption of innovative ideas in science | PNAS
How are the merits of innovative ideas communicated in science? Here, we conduct semantic analyses of grant application success with a focus on sci...
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Mobile Europeans love Europe but participate less in EP elections #UseYourVote deadlines & rules must be simplified and harmonised for mobile Europeans. Read more here: buff.ly/3Vr3YVq - Joint work with @deutschmann.bsky.social @politico.eu @volteuropa.bsky.social @dpzberlin.bsky.social
Mobile Europeans love Europe but participate less in European Parliament elections
Despite their strong emotional attachment to the European Union, EU citizens living outside their home country have a reduced chance of voting in European Parliament elections, write Nils Witte and…
buff.ly
This is a super interesting large scale study about replicability in economics and political sciences
Institute for Replication@i4replication.bsky.social · 2y agoOur first meta paper is out!! This paper combines our first 110 completed reproductions/replications. This is joint work with 350+ amazing coauthors. We summarize our findings below: econpapers.repec.org/paper/zbwi4r...
Save the date 📣 EAPS Infertility and Medically Assisted Reproduction Working Group is organizing a pre-conference workshop at European Population Conference 2024! 12 June 2024 13:00-17:00, Edinburgh eaps.nl/page/inferti... @fertdem.bsky.social @passetwittig.bsky.social and Alice Goisis
Excited and nervous to share our new paper TLDR: Folks talk about contraception as a silver bullet for BIG problems in the Global South. Not only are these arguments racist/misogynist (long established), but the evidence for them is much thinner than we’ve been led to believe. We dig in a bit!
Fertility Has Been Framed: Why Family Planning Is Not a Silver Bullet for Sustainable Development - ...
High fertility and population growth have been framed as villains in global health and development. Inspired by neo-Malthusian concerns around resource depletion, scholars have argued that fertility r...
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‼️new paper: Is religiosity associated higher lifetime fertility intentions across the life course? Short answer: religiosity mainly contributes to higher starting level at teenage years but not as much to later trajectories. Joint work with C. Bein, M. Bujard & Anne Gauthier
Now you know: This is bad. Maternal deaths per 100,000 live births: Selected countries, 1990-2020 www.who.int/publications... #publichealth #demography
ResearchGate is vandalized too. Don't wait to see how things decay there, quit now. ResearchGate --> click on profile pic --> Settings --> Delete account #AcademicSky #ScientificPublishing
Christina Hansen Wheat@chansenwheat.bsky.social · 3y agoSo, are we gonna talk about how someone thought it was a good idea to see if they could do ResearchGate worse than Elon did Twitter? 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM
Aus d. Abstract: "[...] Frauen [sind] noch nicht entsprechend ihrem erwartbaren Anteil in allen Funktionsgruppen vertreten. Als Herausgeberinnen [&] Autorinnen von Forschungsbeiträgen haben sie am stärksten aufgeholt, wobei sich bei letzteren Kooperationen mit Männern begünstigend ausgewirkt haben."
Zeitschrift für Soziologie@zfs.bsky.social · 3y ago"Vom Alleinautor zum gemischten Doppel? Geschlecht, Status und Sichtbarkeit in der Publikationspraxis führender Soziologiezeitschriften" von Heike Trappe und Nadja Milewski. Jetzt in der neuen Ausgabe der ZfS. Im Open-Access abrufbar unter: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
Update: the EAPS working group on „infertility and MAR“ will be organizing its first in-person meeting as a pre-EPC workshop on 12 June 2024. Take note and we hope to see you there! Contact us if you want to join the Working Group @passetwittig.bsky.social +Alice Goisis #demography #fertility
Eva Beaujouan@fertdem.bsky.social · 3y agoThe 2024 European Population Conference will take place in Edinburgh 12-15 June. I am a convener on the fertility theme. Deadline: 1 November 2023. Looking forward to receiving many exciting submissions! epc2024.eaps.nl/hps/CallforP...